Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael S. Zick" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too | Date | Sun, 10 May 2009 12:09:12 -0500 |
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On Sun May 10 2009, Michael Riepe wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > >>It seems to me that this particular chip really doesn't like MSI. > > > > > > I can confirm this. I tried with msi enabled and it starts breaking > > after a few seconds of heavy transfers. Disabling MSI results in a reliable connection. > > > > Maybe we should disable MSI as temporary workaround for affected chips? > > Yep. It may not solve the problem, but it's a lot better than turning > MSI off for everything, including apparently working NICs that use the > same driver(s). >
Lucky people, at least you have a device specific driver. ;) No device specific driver for the Via PCI-to-PCIe bridge (1106:324B) used in the CX700 chip set. (and the 8139too driver is not acting up on this machine.)
Not a problem in my case, building without MSI support gives up very little.
Mike
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